Specialist Psychotherapy for Nairobi — Senior Clinical Support, Online
Nairobi is one of Africa’s most dynamic cities — a hub for international organisations, multinational corporations, diplomatic communities, East African business leadership and a growing professional class navigating demands that have no obvious precedent. The psychological pressures of that context are real, and the specialist clinical resources available to address them at depth remain limited.
Finding a therapist in Nairobi who combines doctoral-level clinical training, specialist expertise in addiction, trauma and eating disorders, and genuine experience with the pressures of high-achieving international life is rare. Philippe Jacquet and Associates works with clients in Nairobi — expatriates, East African professionals, NGO and UN staff, corporate executives and family members — by secure video, at the same clinical standard as the Harley Street practice.
Who This Practice Works With in Nairobi
The client profile in Nairobi is varied but tends to share certain features. International professionals and expatriates — working for the UN, World Bank, USAID, major NGOs, international law firms or multinational corporations — often find that the support infrastructure they would access at home simply does not exist at the same quality in Nairobi. East African business leaders and their families face the particular complexity of high visibility, limited privacy and few local practitioners equipped for genuinely complex presentations.
What most of these clients have in common is this: they are functioning at a high level, they are managing something significant privately, and they need a practitioner with the range and depth to meet what is actually there — not a general counsellor, but a specialist.
Clinical Specialisations
Addiction — Alcohol, cocaine, prescription medication, behavioural addictions. Philippe Jacquet trained at the Hazelden Foundation and brings over 25 years of specialist addiction work. This includes highly functional presentations — where professional life remains intact but the dependency has become privately unmanageable.
Eating disorders — Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive behaviour around food and exercise. Philippe Jacquet holds a Doctorate of Professional Practice and is the only clinician in Europe to have completed doctoral research specifically on male eating disorders — a significantly underserved and underdiagnosed presentation.
Trauma and EMDR — Philippe Jacquet is EMDR Europe accredited at the highest level, with over 20 years of trauma-focused clinical practice. This includes both complex developmental trauma and single-incident trauma.
Depression and anxiety — Including presentations that have not responded to previous treatment, or where the underlying structure is more complex than the surface symptoms suggest.
Executive exhaustion and burnout — Sustained high-performance environments — whether corporate, diplomatic or humanitarian — produce a specific form of depletion that requires specific clinical attention. Jungian and integrative approaches address the underlying structure, not only the symptoms.
Expat identity and transition — The particular disorientation of repeated relocation, cultural adaptation and the absence of continuous community. This affects both the individual and family members who may not have chosen the move.
How Sessions Work
All sessions are conducted by secure encrypted video. This removes the practical barriers that in-person support in Nairobi presents — the logistics, the visibility, the uncertainty about confidentiality in local settings — while delivering clinical work of a standard equivalent to a senior Harley Street practice.
Sessions are conducted in English and French. Scheduling respects the East Africa Time zone. An initial sixty-minute consultation is the starting point — its purpose is to assess whether this is the right clinical fit and to clarify what the work involves.
Philippe Jacquet — Qualifications
Integrative psychotherapist and Jungian analyst. Over 25 years of clinical practice, trained and based on Harley Street, London. EMDR Europe accredited at the highest level. Hazelden Foundation trained in addiction. Doctorate of Professional Practice — doctoral research on eating disorders. Bilingual clinical practice in English and French.
Dr Jacquet served as clinical supervisor at Promis Recovery Center — one of the UK’s most prestigious private addiction clinics, with units in London and Kent — for over five years, overseeing their entire clinical team. He has also supervised the clinical team at the Cardinal Psychiatry Unit. This level of institutional responsibility is rare in private practice and speaks directly to the seniority and clinical depth he brings to individual client work.
Lived Experience — Addiction and Eating Disorders
Philippe Jacquet brings to this work something that no qualification alone can provide: personal lived experience of both addiction and eating disorders. He is in long-term recovery. That experience — alongside Hazelden Foundation training, over 25 years of specialist clinical practice, and clinical supervision roles at PROMIS Recovery Centre and Cardinal Clinic — gives this work a depth of understanding that is genuinely rare in a practitioner at this level.
The Hazelden model has always recognised that lived experience in recovery is not incidental to clinical expertise — it is constitutive of it. A practitioner who has faced these difficulties personally brings a quality of understanding that goes beyond clinical knowledge: they know what is actually happening inside the experience, what the pull of the substance or behaviour feels like, what the moment of genuine recognition looks like, and what makes the difference between treatment that touches the real problem and treatment that does not.
This is not offered as biography. It is offered as the clinical context that explains why the work in this practice reaches where it does.